So, this is essentially a follow-up to my previous post of ‘Why do people work?’. On one of the lectures Dr. Simon posted, there was a survey that said “‘limited recognition and praise’ was cited as the most common reason for why employees left the company”. In the survey mentioned in the previous survey, almost half of the responses as to why people work is because of exciting challenging work. This is kind of interesting, because at face value, these two reasons seem unrelated. But as I ponder more, I start to see some relationship.

Is there a correlation between these two responses? Or are they unrelated? Share your own work experience on this issue.